PHILADLPHIA - District Attorney Larry Krasner and Senator Sharif Street as well as their constituents took to the podium Tuesday to decry gun violence following a shooting that claimed the lives of two men on July 4th.
The victims of the gun violence on July 4th were a beloved business owner Sincarr Johnson Jr., 22, and Salahaldin "Lala" Mahmoud, the nephew of Senator Sharif Street and an entrepreneur.
A number of people were shot over the weekend and the city's gun violence is outpacing the homicide rate of last year. So far, according to DA Krasner, Philadelphia is recording a rate of 30% over the rate of last year. "The senseless, the tragedy of it all is overwhelming," Sen.